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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Vanity request: FlashForward screen grab

Now that the first 10 episodes of FlashForward are out on DVD, I have a favour to ask. Could somebody please send me high-resolution screen captures of my two credits from the ending credits (from any of the 10 episodes)?

My first credit is the first one in the ending credits, and says "Based on the Novel by Robert J. Sawyer." My second one is about half-way through the end credits and is a shared card with three other people; my part of the card says, "Consultant: Robert J. Sawyer."

For some reason, my own attempt at capturing the credits has failed (watching the DVD on my PC, and hitting Ctrl-PrintScreen, which normally copies the screen contents to the Windows Clipboard, just gets me an all-black rectangle).

I'm frankly delighted to see the DVDs, because ABC squeezed-and-teased the end credits into oblivion during broadcast (grrrr!).

("Squeezed and teased" means they pushed the credits down to the bottom -- or sometimes on other shows to one side -- and ran a promo for something else (in our case, our next episode) on most of the screen; the credits appear full-screen on the DVDs.)

Hi, Gerard. That was really kind of you -- and they're great screen captures. But I still want to get them off the DVD, too, because the version on the DVD doesn't have the ABC and station logos superimposed at the bottom. :) Thank you, though! I DO appreciate it!

You can do this with VLC, an open source video player that you can download here:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Simply drag the DVD icon to the open VLC window to play it, (flash)forward to what you want to capture and use the snapshot command (or its windows equivalent under the video menu) to capture the frame.